Chris Brody created CB-623:
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Summary: Logger functionality separated from (debug) console
Key: CB-623
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-623
Project: Apache Callback
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: CordovaJS, Docs, iOS
Affects Versions: 1.6.1
Environment: In discussion from CB-611 it is a bad idea to mix logger
level functionality with HTML5 console log
Reporter: Chris Brody
Assignee: Filip Maj
Fix For: Master
After a long discussion with Patrick Mueller in CB-611 it is now clear to me
that it is a bad idea to mix extra logger level functionality with {{console}}
log functionality. The existing {{console}} object (or {{window.console}} which
is equivalent) was already emulating the HTML API for console.log, however some
changes that only work in the iOS version are adding extra functions that are
not HTML compatible. So if users start writing code that uses extra functions
in the {{console}} or {{window.console}} namespace that code will start
throwing exceptions if ported or reused in a pure HTML(5) application.
Patrick Mueller proposed an excellent idea in CB-611 to add a new Javascript
object like {{cordova.logger}} to put the functionality related to logging. The
primary purpose should be for plugin authors to log things that may be
important for debugging applications. So the {{console}} (or
{{window.console}}) object can be remain with a fully HTML-compliant API.
Also, I think there is some agreement that having a built-in plugin called
"Debug Console" (with the space in the middle) should be fixed (CB-611/CB-617).
Patrick Mueller suggested that we call the plugin something like "Logger" and I
really like that idea. It is positioning a lower-level logging facility, that
can be called by a higher-level {{console}} API implementation.
I hereby leave this issue together with CB-611 as well as CB-617 CB-618 CB-619
open for discussion.
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